BED & BOARD
| 1971 – 98′ – Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Classic.
Written by: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon.
Directed by: François Truffaut.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Mademoiselle Hiroko, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel, Daniel Boulanger, Sylvana Blasi, Pierre Maguelon.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel (after The 400 blows, Antoine & Colette, Stolen Kisses and before Love on the Run), Bed & Board plunges his hapless creation once again into crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, Bed & Board is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.